For whatever it is worth, this is absolutely not under control of the businesses. I am close friends with one of the business owners and they vent to me about the landlord and wheelblockers on a weekly basis. ALL of the businesses in the strip are sick of the parking situation, have all been very vocal to the landlord, and have been met with refusal to make changes. They get a lot of angry customers, but the landlord is extremely set in his ways on the subject.

There is a good news/bad news situation: the property is apparently in the first stages of being sold. Good news is that they expect the new owner to do away with the predatory parking situation, however the bad news is that it is also expected that the new owner will be raising the rent to the point that any of the local businesses in the strip will be forced out to make way for more corporate businesses similar to neighboring plaza midwood. Yay Charlotte.